I just found out the heart-wrenching news that our beloved HARVEY KORMAN has passed away. Here is a clip from the Carol Burnett Show with Tim Conway. Korman cracking up during any Tim Conway scene always had me in tears with laughter. Still does. Rest in peace, Harvey. We will miss you. And thank you for all the laughs!

Some personal favorite Harvey Korman:Blazing SaddlesHistory of the World Pt 1Carol Burnett Showand he was the voice of the Great Gazoo!

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

While I commend the person for getting an Alien tattoo, I'm perplexed as to why they chose the Alien from the crappy AVP movie? (the source is from the AVP promo posters). The AVP Alien is the worst design of the series and lacking almost every element of Giger that makes the Alien awesome in the first place. It's like deciding to go get a Star Wars tattoo and getting Jar Jar.

Click HERE for the other JimSmash "Alien Tattoo of the Day" posts!*(always posted to the right)

Which ones do you have? (if any). I have DOOMSDAY, WONDER WOMAN and BIZARRO. I had the main JLA figs, but just sold them on ebay to clean up the collection. I'd like to have the AZTEK, though. Anyone have an extra?!

In case you don't want to watch the clip, she says the earthquake in China, that has killed more than 65,00 people and destroyed 7,000 occupied school classrooms, was karma. Let's see if karma comes back to her.

I've had about a dozen friends, who's movie opinions I trust wholeheartidly, tell me NOT to see the new Indiana Jones movie because it sucks so hard. "It's a made-for-TV movie" said one. Another said, "I hated it so much, it made me sad." And another said he tried to fall asleep to escape it while his wife continued to watch. Yet 2 friends said it was enjoyable, the weakest of the 4, but fun. And finally, one said it was better than Crusade... but Crusade is his own personal "Episode 1", heh.

So I thought it might be fun to have you JimSmash Readers decide if I go see it! This is mainly for those of you who HAVE seen it, but I suppose you can vote if you haven't.

These comics ended ABRUPTLY with no closure:* PITT: Dale Keown's "Biker Hulk From Space... with claws!'* BATTLE CHASERS: Joe Madureira, hot off his killer X-Men run, did this not-so-original Sword N Sorcery book. Story was for shite, but the art sure was perty.* X-MEN THE HIDDEN YEARS: John Byrne's "untold stories" that would have filled in the gap between X-Men #67 and X-Men #93, which were actually reprint issues back in the day. Marvel cancelled the series with just 4-freaking issues to go!* WILDCATS 3.0: Man, kickass stories by Joe Casey with kickass art by Dustin Nguyen. And they canceled it without any closure at issue #24 - it was planned to be finish at issue 40.* SOUL SAGA: Total guilty pleasure book, by Stephen Platt (who vanished off the face of the earth, apparently)* ASH: Joe Quesada & Jimmy Palmiotti's superhero fireman. They started "their own Image Comics" with EVENT COMICS. I think Ash was the only title when they stopped at issue 6 to go back to save Marvel with their Marvel Knights imprint. What was I saying?.... oh yeah, I miss Ash.* YOUNGBLOOD: Alan Moore and Steve "Matrix" Skroce relaunched Liefeld's Youngblood (was this version 4? 5?). It had promise, especially with those two creators on the book, but stopped after the 2nd issue. Jeezus, really?* NEW MEN: Another Liefeld "created" book. I never liked this title, but near its end, CHRIS SPROUSE came onboard as penciller. Suddenly, me like. But then it stopped coming out after like 4 issues.

These comics were suddenly cancelled, but given enough advance notice for the writer to QUICKLY and hastily wrap it up:* AZTEK: Grant Morrisson's creation within the DCU. Just when it was starting to find itself and get interesting, it gets cancelled.* MR MAJESTIC: Jim Lee's Wildstorm Universe's answer to Superman. Joe Casey was writing some killer stories here. The first 6 issues had art by Ed McGuinness, followed by Eric Canete. Issue 12 was the last issue and the character hasn't been interesting since. Bah!* MYSTIQUE: I loved this book! And I loved where writer Ted McKeever was going to take the character. But then Marvel cancelled the book and x-writer Peter Milligan grabbed her and single-handedly ruined the character within the pages of then-unreadable X-MEN.* SPIDER-MAN 2099: Peter David & Rick Leonardi's future tale of "Spider-Man". It was awesome and fun. Plus I love the costume! I think David left during some weird Marvel editor/manager shakeups... right around the time Marvel went bankrupt, rotten from within.* MAJOR BUMMER: Hilarious!!!!* SUPERGIRL: Never could get into the book, but when Ed Benes came onto the book for art chores, it got better. That and David busting out the scripts cause the book was going to get cancelled. The book sales went up, but DC had made its decision and cancelled it.* DOOM PATROL: I really dug this new series. But I guess the market wasn't strong enough to support it. A real shame.* NEW X-MEN: Ok, this makes sense..... cancel the best X-Book on the stands, then relaunch it as "Young X-Men" but with a different, crappy writer and art team.

These poor souls perished because the comic company, CrossGen, went belly up:Poor CrossGen. They changed the look and feel of Today's comics, but then went under. Marvel and DC snagged up all the artists and changed their books to look like CrossGen (Marve especially). Too bad some fantastic titles were lost, like RUSE, ROUTE 666 and EL CAZADOR.

1) At first I didn't want to see this because they had strayed so much from the comic sourse material.2) I didn't realize this was being directed by Timur Bekmambetov, who did the Night/Day Watch movies.3) Now I want to see this!4) I think I'd prefer to see the RUSSIAN dubbed version of this film!

Oh dear God.... in addition to the HIGHLANDER remake news, we get this bullshit: Breck Eisner ("Sahara") is going to remake not only THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON but also FLASH GORDON. I really don't think I need to explain my rage here, do I?

How come those lucky few who are able to make movies in Hollywood are those who lack any kind of original thought? Why not make NEW stuff instead of remaking films by other creators who actually have talent and imagination?

Also, much like Clancy Brown being irreplaceable, you cannot have MING without MAX VON SYDOW!!!!

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

The top of this month's reading pile has been.....Hmmm, only 2 DC to Marvel's 8.I just haven't liked the DCU post-Infinite Crisis.However, Detective and Geof Johns' Action are aces.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*#11 would have been Green Lantern, but it hasn't been superb since Sinestro Corps War.